The Users’ Office is to be relocated from the 8 December, to enable renovation works to be undertaken. The office will be found instead in building 510-R-033, and will remain there until the end of February 2011.

Citizens of countries outside of the European Economic Area and Switzerland, who are conducting research or teaching at a university level at CERN, are reminded that they are required to apply "Protocole d'accueil" for a stay at CERN of maximum 90 days in any six-month period.

As part of the 7th International Particle Physics Masterclasses the pupils, from 23 different countries, will travel to nearby universities and research centers to analyse collision data from the Large Hadron Collider – including a special new exercise put forward by ALICE.